Everything is Okay.

Another moth for the moth jar!

This is a Madagascan Sunset Moth and I worked on him during a very long day at work. Thank you very much for the suggestion, moth enthusiasts!

Now available as a stick and a bunch of other things on Redbubble.

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

and my personal favorite:

I also appreciate the ones that really change the tone and suggest that the characters openly loathe each other…

and this one, which gently encourages self-care:

And the greatest of all:

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

Welcome to Neel’s technicolor converted factory home in Melbourne, Australia.  A floral mural dresses up the exterior front door, that opens to a rainbow staircase.

Neel relaxes on the mezzanine level, where exposed beams are painted lime green.

“My whole life is pretty colorful, and I wanted my house to feel like an extension of that,” Neel says. “It’s the social house where people want to congregate and hang out.”

Neel’s portrait mingles with kittens, Darth Vader, and Buzz Lightyear.

One of the first pieces Neel bought for his home, this shell-back chair, was recovered in salvaged fabrics.

Neel stores a variety of colorful glasses in his cotton-candy pink console. Each guest who visits is required to choose the vessel that represents them best.

Elephant trunks make stunning table legs.

“My colorful aesthetic was elevated when I moved to Australia because wearing colorful clothes looked so much better in bright sunlight,” Neel says.

This interior front door has a cheerful jungle mural.

I wanted her to have curly hair because of my obsession with curly hair,” Neel says of the mural. “I just like the faces. Every morning when I wake up, I look at them and feel very happy with myself.”

Neel’s bevy of antique mirrors, which he bought at Sunday markets and then spray painted in neons and jewel tones, provide a similar level of delight in his bedroom.

Neel channeled 1970s New York bathhouses and Mykonos, Greece nightclubs for his enchanting bathroom.

“Oh my God. I took one this morning,” Neel says of his outdoor shower. “Joyful. Absolutely. That has elevated my joy. Nudged it to the next level.”

Use, "these characters, but drop them on an alien planet," to practice world-building. Use, "this universe, but a new guy shows up," to practice character development. Use, "start with this story, but fix 3 plot points you don't like," to practice tracking down why something doesn't seem right, and fixing it in place.

Some of y'all are the parent yelling that your kids never read bc you'll only let them read "real" books and make fun of whatever they're into. That's dumb. Let kids like things. Meet them where they are. Refusing to do that is setting them up for failure bc your own ego won't let you "stoop" to the level of teaching in a way that excites and empowers.

We had moved well on to poetry when one week he is SO PROUD to read me his story where Jack and Annie go to Hogwarts. So proud. He made up spells, he chose wands, he wrote a Sorting Hat song. He printed that story out to show his parents who don't speak any English at all, and his teacher at school. He made his own side character in that fanfic, and has been writing ON HIS OWN, UNPROMPTED, a story about a boy who briefly met J&A and searched for his own magic adventure.

Evil Communist Big Bird be like:

“Yes good”

“AND EAT THE BAD ONES”

“Wait no”

“EAT THEM”

You better watch out

You better watch out